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The Jetfoil travels at a smooth 43 knots.even in rough seas. That's fast enough to double or even triple your total of daily roundtrips. And it's reliable. Snce 1975, the Jetfoil has carried more than 10 million passengers over 500 million passenger miles. For all the details, write /f fAJFJA/^ Boeing Marine Systems, P.O. Box 3707, Seattle, WA 98124. S'VSTJF/tfJS'First,am"y Write 134 on Reader Service Card Coastal Will Overhaul Navy Oiler 'Savannah' At Cost Of $17.5 Million Coastal Dry Dock and Repair Corporation, Brooklyn, N.Y., has been awarded a $17,447,000 firm fixed-price contract for the reg- ularly scheduled overhaul of the replenishment oiler USS Savan- nah (AOR-4). The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Re- pair, USN, Brooklyn, N.Y., is the contracting activity. (N62794-70- C-0010) China Shipbuilding To Construct Two Ships For Evergreen Line Evergreen Line has signed a contract with China Shipbuilding Corporation of Taiwan for the construction of two L-type, full containerships of 1,800 TEU ca- pacity. They will be delivered in April and July 1983. The two ves- sels will be sister ships of the four L-type vessels currently serving Evergreen's European routes. Evergreen also placed an order for two 30,000-dwt, handy-size bulk carriers with the Hakodate Dock Company in Japan for de- livery in March and May of 1982. Evergreen is considering order- ing more bulk carriers in the future. Trinidad Corporation Sold To Apex Shipping Barber Oil Corporation has an- nounced the sale of its tanker op- erating subsidiary, Trinidad Cor- poration, for $25.5 million to Apex Shipping, Inc., a subsidiary of Apex Oil Company, a privately held company based in St. Louis, Mo. Barber shareholders adopted a plan of voluntary liquidation of the corporation late last year, which action contemplated sale of the corporation's assets in a series of transactions and the dis- tribution of the proceeds to Bar- ber shareholders. The corpora- tion has completed sale of both its U.S. and Canadian oil and gas assets, its maritime assets, and its 50 percent interest in Ameri- can Gilsonite Company. The cor- poration's only remaining signifi- cant assets are its coal operations in southwestern Virginia. Nego- tiations for sale of the coal as- sets are continuing. MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS (USPS 016-750) 107 EAST 31st STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. 10016 (212) 689-3266 ESTABLISHED 1939 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News is published the 1st and 15th of each month by Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. Controlled Circulation postage paid at Waterbury, Connecticut 06701. Postmaster send notification (Form 3579) regarding undeliver- able magazines to Maritime Reporter/Engineering News, 107 East 31st Street, New York, N.Y. 10016. No. 4 Volume 43 All MATERIAL FOR EDITORIAL CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO ROBERT WARE, EDITOR. Member VBPA Business Publications Audit of Circulation. Inc. 4 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
